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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1936
Page
2
Local residents report Christmas and New Year visits across Iowa towns including Manchester Clinton Des Moines Cedar Rapids and Des Moines. Households feature Mrs and Mrs including Stahler Goudy Musgrove and many relatives visiting kin and friends.
Local residents and relatives spread across several towns for Christmas and New Year visits. Henry Monk and Henry Monk Jr. traveled to Carney Kansas while Rev J F Delay spent Christmas with relatives in Cedar Rapids. A broad list shows many families hosting kin from Chicago Kansas City Marion and Oelwein amid holiday hospitality and minor health notes.
The notice lists numerous relatives and friends visiting in Monticello over Christmas including Mrs. Meta Kasper's illness prompting Mrs. Carroll Podhaski to travel to Anamosa for care. It also notes social visits among families in Independence Cascade Cedar Rapids Waterloo and Davenport, and mentions an upcoming Monticello group picnic at Mrs. Neva Starks Wilson's ranch. Dr Geo J Wenzlick advertises a Davenport sanitarium and patient accounts at Monticello State Bank.
The Paris desk notes St John bonfires in France with villagers begging for fuel and a ritual flower saving act said to promise marriage. It also describes Ohio Indian adoption rituals where an abducted white man is ceremonially married and washed in a stream, with death if he refuses.
Ancient Greek priests purified sins with mud and mud becomes slate when pressed. Wasps use mud to build nests, and people make adobe houses. Ocean floors hold mud deposits of varying colors. Mud preserves bones, letting scientists read past secrets.
The I & U Club marked Mrs Lillian Hearn eightieth birthday with a Thursday surprise party featuring ice cream cake and coffee. Seventy greeting cards arrived from friends and relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Thompson hosted a Christmas dinner last Friday. Attending were Mr. and Mrs. Sam James and son Clarence of Springville, Mr. and Mrs. James Thompson, Mr. Vernon, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Begley of Springville, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Skelley and children of Cedar Rapids, and Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Thompson of Columbus, Nebraska.
Mr and Mrs Rudolph Aebi hosted a Christmas day family gathering at their home with guests including Mr and Mrs W Shipe and daughter of Cedar Rapids, Mr and Mrs H K Spurrier of Cedar Rapids, Mr and Mrs Ernest Aebi of Pittsburgh PA, and Elmer Aebi of Fort Wayne Indiana.
Monticello relatives gathered for multiple Christmas dinner events. Hosts included Mr. and Mrs. Ricklefs and Mr. and Mrs. James Howie. Attendees spanned Cedar Rapids, Davenport, Manchester, Hopkinton, Castle Grove, and beyond with eleven to fourteen at each table.
A sizable family Christmas gathering was hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Adams. More than thirty people were seated at one long table with festive decorations. Out-of-town guests included Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Himebaugh of Oelwein Mr. and Mrs. Charles Butler of Cedar Rapids and Clair Adams a St Luke's hospital nurse. The afternoon featured visiting and a game of monopoly.
C E S meets next Monday evening January 4 for a regular session and to install 1037 officers. All members who can are urged to be present.
The Neighborhood card club met at Mrs. Matt Muller's home Tuesday evening for a regular meeting and a white elephant party. They played progressive auction bridge with Mrs. Muller winning high score and Mrs. Hans Ruof taking the traveling prize. Guests included Miss Marguerite Aitchison and Miss Florence Hoag. A plate luncheon followed, with a white elephant exchange to end the event.
A string of Yuletide gatherings spans Monticello homes as Ed Eilers hosts a Christmas Day dinner after moving to town with relatives from Central City Marion Hopkinton and further guests. The Remleys McLaughlins Nobles and Kays host varied groups for dinners and evenings of games music and visiting with many family members attending.
Plans for the Iowa State Farm Bureau federation meeting at Shrine auditorium Des Moines January 20 21 and 22 include a large opening day recognition program for honors to individuals counties and townships. Winners in three major music contests will be announced with medals awarded to winning quartets in the farmers male quartet women’s quartet and mixed voice contests.
The Iowa Farm Bureau federation and partners sponsor a quarter contest with Meredith publications Cedar Rapids Gazette and Wallaces Farmer and Iowa Homestead. A new township Bureau event offers 100 dollars in cash awards for townships with the highest farm operator membership percentage.
Report notes the wild predictions of a snowstorm did not come to pass with mild weather lingering. Two week school vacation pleases boys while industry sees more changes than in a decade. Flu enters town despite mild days as Sinclair Oil builds an east Main street station with brick superstructure and large-car workshop space.
Ben Roberts Jr a senior at Iowa State spoke to the Ames Rotary Club on General Engineering He credited Professor Frank Payne with founding the department and said graduates can enter industrial management production business operations and sales The talk amused and informed Rotarians and the January program schedule was announced with several speakers expected into February
John Gray an Anamosa farmer near Bunker Hill school ended his life on his farm by a shotgun blast to the head. He had never recovered from earlier lightning injuries. His widow and several children survive.
Thurrell Pursell six months old, son of Mr and Mrs Mark Pursell of Shenandoah Page county, fell 14 feet from an unhooked storm window after rolling from a bed near a window. He landed in a shrubbery and slid to icy ground, sustaining only a bump on the head and minor cuts.
Miss Sybil Sullinger of New York City will arrive this week to spend New Year's in the homes of her aunts Mrs. BE. J. Farley and Mrs. Hans Kettlitz. She flew from New York to Chicago earlier this week and visited her cousin Mrs. W. W. Low there before continuing to Monticello.
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